Summer

You have two options:

Book off May 8–11, 14–18 and 21–25. With the two May bank holidays on May 7 and May 28, this gives you 24 days off with only 14 leave days taken. You could be away for almost a whole month, from May 5–May 28.

Or, if you’d prefer a later summer break, use the August bank holiday to your advantage. Book off August 28–31. With the bank holiday on August 27, this gives you nine days off with only four days of leave taken.

Christmas

Book off December 24, 27 and 28 to get yourself an 11 day break over Christmas using only 3 days of annual leave.

If you follow these instructions to the letter, you can get yourself a mammoth 51 days of holiday using your 25 days of annual leave.

But don’t forget…

This is assuming that you don’t work weekends, bank holidays or over Christmas. If that’s you, we’re really sorry and hope you still get plenty of holiday.